When I lived on campus at UH Hilo, I lived with some guys on the basketball team. I had the opportunity to make friends with a few of them that I still keep in contact to this day.

At today’s County Inauguration, I bumped into one of them. Andy Smith played at UH Hilo where he was known as a tall man that was a deep three point threat! I haven’t seen a tall guy shoot from outside like that since at UH Hilo. I used to party with him during the off-season, so it was very surprising to me when I was on Oahu when I learned that he had gotten into politics.

Andy Smith at the Hawaii County Inauguration

Andy is now Governor Lingle’s East Hawaii Liaison and recently ran a close race for the State House.

He gave me his card and let me know that he is running a Basketball Camp called Hawaii Island Hoops.

If anyone is interested in setting up a camp with Mr. Smith, I urge you to give him an email at andysmith1@hawaiiantel.net

I know AP writer Karin Stanton reads this blog, and I spoke with her for a few minutes today.

So I’ll just post this on my blog and see how long it takes the Honolulu Advertiser to fix this in their breaking news coverage of today’s inauguration:

“…Yoshimoto is joined by five other returning councilmembers: Emily Naole of Puna, Brenda Ford of Kona, Pete Hoffmann of Kohala, Dominic Yagong of Hamakua and Donald Ikeda of Hilo…”

Karin… It’s “Naeole” ;)

This is one of the things about Newspapers. I’m not sure Karin will be able to go in and fix this typo without actually getting a hold of the Advertiser’s Webmaster.

I make typo’s all the time. At least when I make them on my blog… I get control of when and how I fix them… And I’m not a major newspaper… I’m just the everyday “Joe blogger”, hu iz stihl lurning hau 2 spel @ tymes.

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